A Newbie&8217;s Guide to Startup Compensation (or &8220;Stock Options will Make Me Rich!&8221;) - Tony Wright dot com (13)
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My first experience with stock options was at the ripe age of 34 years old, when I was selling Jobby (retired) to Jobster (Gah, make the Web 2.0 names STOP!). Before that, I’d been running my own business for close to a decade– with good success, but there really wasn’t any sense in setting up an options plan. So when selling our company and getting presented with a cash/stock options package, I was damn excited ...
PR: Pitching TechCrunch, Scoble, and other Influentials (2)
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Christian Anderson (a former colleague at Jobster) had an interesting (and well-researched) post on his blog called “How to Pitch Robert Scoble — HINT: No Direct Tweets“… , which led to a discussion on FriendFeed (with Robert himself weighing in) that was pretty interesting. I had a contribution bouncing around in my head but held off responding until I read an absolutely fabulous quote from one of my favorite books on marketing: ““No one ever ...
RescueTime pour suivre votre activité sur l’ordinateur (1)
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RescueTime est un logiciel applicatif qui permet de suivre ce que vous faite sur votre ordinateur et qui fourni une information précise sur l’utilisation que vous en faite : internet, mail, lecture de blogs, powerpoint… Depuis un mois je teste l’outil et les résultats sont très intéressants car avant je n’étais pas capable de segmenter le temps passé sur l’ordi et de précisément dire combien de temps je passe à répondre à des emails, faire ...
Software Startups No Longer Need As Much Venture Capital, Says Founder of RescueTime (1)
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VC, startups, innovation Gregory T. Huang wrote: Venture financing—who needs it? Not early-stage software and Web startups, if you ask Tony Wright. I sat down with the serial entrepreneur and founder of Seattle-based RescueTime yesterday, and he had some intriguing thoughts about recent trends in the innovation community. “The nature of VC is changing,” he said. “The notion of a ‘big launch’ is dead… The magic of something that takes hold in the market is ...
Clients making news. (1)
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One of the cool things about consulting with microISVs and startups is when your clients reach and pass important milestones on the road to success. Four of my clients (that have given me the okay to talk about them) have done just that: Tim Sullivan - Spice, an innovative SaaS application for hiring managers launched last week. It’s a killer app for startups and other agile companies who need better hiring results than either conventional ...
How much time are you wasting on Twitter? (16)
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They bill themselves as the “anti-Twitter.” What is it? It’s RescueTime, a service that keeps track of what you spend your time on. Here Tony Wright, CEO, tells me about the new service. This was part of our trip up to see interesting startups up in Seattle. Here’s the discussion of this video over on FriendFeed. I’m scared to use this tool because it would show that I’m spending too much time on Twitter and ...
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For me, not much. I suspect other sites, though. I'm going to try this.
How much time are you wasting on Twitter? (4)
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They bill themselves as the “anti-Twitter.” What is it? It’s RescueTime, a service that keeps track of what you spend your time on. Here Tony Wright, CEO, tells me about the new service. This was part of our trip up to see interesting startups up in Seattle. Here’s the discussion of this video over on FriendFeed. I’m scared to use this tool because it would show that I’m spending too much time on Twitter and ...
RescueTime: когда мы наблюдаем за временем (1)
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В конце февраля этого года впервые воспользовался вэб-сервисом RescueTime. Будучи в восхищении от не смог понять сути этого несомненно интересного сервиса работающего со статистикой использования компьютера. Wakoopa был социальным и красивым, RescueTime был красивым, но не был социальным. В то время мне показалось, что пользоваться им не стоит и я забросил. Тогда мне показалось совсем непонятным делом создавать сервис, где один пользователь не мог узнать о других и ощутить другие принципы социализации. Также показалось, что ...
Bootstrappers Beware (2)
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A lot of people are damn religious about bootrapping businesses. Especially nowadays when it’s so easy to start a software business– you just need a few hackers, Ruby on Rails, a cheap virtual server and you’re ready to roll, right? Sure. But just because it’s cheaper to start a software company, doesn’t mean that it’s that much cheaper to make it from when you launch a product to the point where you’re sitting back, drinking ...
7 tipů jak rozjet a udržet si startup při zaměstnání (2)
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Pro všechen pracující startup lid. Tony Wright vám představuje sedm klíčových bodů, kterak rozjet a udržet si startup při práci. Tony už má za sebou jednu akvizici Jobsterem a jeho další startup, RescueTime financuje Y Combinator. Potřebujete spoluzakladatele a pár roztleskávačů. Pokud nejste schopni najít dva tři známé, kteří by byli nadšenými beta testery, popřemýšlej nad změnou kurzu. Při půlúvazkovém výkonu je spoluzakladatel nezbytný zejména k udržení workflow a to ve správých kolejích. V určitých ...
Wakoopa Secures $1 Million for App-Monitoring Social Network (1)
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Wakoopa, the application monitoring service that we’ve described as a Last.fm for desktop apps, has raised $1 million in a funding round led by Big Bang Ventures and HENQ Invest. Wakoopa monitors the amount of time each application is open on a user’s desktop (or iPhone), and uses the aggregated data to create a social network. The site also serves as an application database that can be used to look up general information or reviews. ...
The F|R Interview: Y Combinator’s Paul Graham (1)
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Editor’s note: For the sake of accuracy, we have replaced the edited questions and answers with their unedited version (save for some minor stylistic changes). We sincerely apologize for any confusion. This week Found|READ interviews software entrepreneur Paul Graham, co-founder of the influential startup incubator, Y Combinator. Since 2005, Y Combinator has seed-funded 250 founders and over 45 startups including Justin.TV, RescueTime, Weebly and Zecter. Many other “YC shops” have quickly achieved liquidity events, among ...
Y Combinator Demo Day Roundup for Spring 2008 (3)
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The fledgling startups listed below will present their ideas and initial products to investors at this spring’s Y Combinator Demo Day on March 18. Of the 19 companies in this batch, 10 have already launched and only one remains in stealth mode. Most of them have been in development for only three months. Chatterous Chatterous connects various forms of communication so that people can message each other regardless of the form they use most. Currently ...
8aweek To Help You Kick That Internet Time Wasting Addiction (1)
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New Y Combinator startup 8aweek aims to help you stop wasting all that time on random Internet sites. They offer a Firefox plugin that monitors the web sites you visit and how long you spend on each site. If you are on a user-defined “restricted site,” the plugin will tell you when you’ve spent too much time there. Or alternatively, it will block sites if you tell it to be a little more aggressive about ...
